Necktie.



Patented May MEYER.

NECKTIE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 24, I9I5.

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WILLIAM' K. MEYER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T0 MEYER, IBACIIARAGH yANI) FRIEDHEIM, OFNEW YORK, N.Y., .A FIRM COMPOSED 0F WILLIAM K. `MEYER, ROBERT L.,BAGIIARACH, AND ARTHUR FRIEDI-IEIM.

NEGKTIE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1917.

Application led June 24, 1915. Serial No. 36,039.

To au whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, wWILLIAM II. MEYER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State 5 of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Neckties, of which the following is a specification.

The primary object of this invention is to preserve the shape and prevent the breaking down of the stitching and material of neck ties of the four-in-hand or analogous type, due to the strain which these ties are subjected to in adjusting them on a collar, particularly turnover collars in which they frequently stick.

I am aware that reinforcing stitching. has been employed` in this class ofties for relieving the strain on certainweak points of the tie when it is pulled to adjust it on the collar, but as far as I am aware, thisstitching-has been confined to the neck-band of the tie. A

According to my invention, I reinforce or stay the tie by a line or lines of stitching, but this stitching extends beyond the neck portion in the direction of the enlarged end.

In order to more fully describe my said invention, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein,

Figure l, is a view of the outer face of a four-in-hand tie embodying my invention;

Fig. 2, a view of the rear face or back of said tie;

Fig. 3, a section on line BX-Sx Fig. l;

Fig. 4, a section on line iX-4X Fig. 1, and

Fig. 5, a section on line 5*-5X Fig. 1.

The tie shown in the accompanying drawings, aside from the staying or reinforcing feature hereinafter described and which constitutes the present invention, is a well known form of four-in-hand tie, consisting of two pieces of silk or other material joined by a bias seam l, folded longitudinally, and stitched together by a seam 2 extending from point 3 to point 4f, from which points to the ends of the material the adjacent edges are free. i

The material when thus folded forms a neck-band 5 which merges more or less gradually into two enlarged ends 6 and 7 one of which ends, the end 6 in the present case, is smaller than the other.

Inclosed Within the outer material of the tie is an inner lining S, which, in the case shown, extends to points adjacent the outer extremities of the enlarged ends 6 and 7 of the tie. My invention, however, is applicable also to. ties without inner linings, but most four-in-hand ties are provided withv an inner lining.

Such ties are often provided with rows of stitching 9 and 10 along the neck-band adjacent its outer edges to reinforce that portion of the'tie and hold it in shape. These stitches, however, do not in the particular tie shown pass through the inner lining, but they may do so. 1 s i In tying necktiesl of this character, it is that portion of the tie from the point indicated by thevsection line 3X-3 to the left, or the smaller end of the tie, and the portion where said end merges into the necksband, the knot forming portion, which is subjected to the greatest strain and wear and tear, because it is the small end of the tie which is pulled in adjusting the tie on the collar after the knot is tied or partially tied. This strain not only has a tendency to pull the tie out of shape, but it often results in breaking down the bias seam 1, and displacing the inner lining. l

The object of the present invention is to stay or reinforce the end of the tie which receives this strain and hold it in shape, and this I do in the present case, by two rows of criss-cross stitching 11, 12, extending from the neck-band to the end of the seam 2 at the small end of the tie, and also two rows of criss-cross stitching 13, 14, between the outer extremity of the end 6 of the tie and the point 3 where the seam 2 terminates. The stitches 11, 12, extend transversely entirely through the tie, being visible on the front face as well as the back thereof, but since this portion of the tie does not show, or is concealed from view when tied, the presence of these stitches on the outer face does not make any difference so far as appearance is concerned. These stitches may be continuations of the stitches 9, 10, and are actually such as here shown. Stitches 11, 12 passing through the outer material of both faces of the tie, and through the inner lining in the case shown, not only hold these parts rmly together, but, extending criss-cross as they do, act to stay or reinforce the material through which they pass and thus strengthen it as well as prevent it from getting out of shape.

Stitches 13 and 14: extend through the lining 8 and the outer material of the front face of the tie only, being within that portion of the tie and where the back folds are free and open. If desired, however, stitching 11, 12, could merge into stitching 13, 111, but this is inconvenient to do on a machine, and at the same time allow the back ofthe tie end 6 to remain open from 'the end of seam 2 to the outer extremity of said end. rlhis latter stitching (13, 14), while visible on the outside or front of the tie is on the small end of the tie which is hidden from view by the larger end when tied, and its presence therefore does not detract from the appearance of the tie.

It will also be noted that the stitching 11, 12, being along that part ofthe tie around which the other end of the tie is wrapped in tying, willv act to preserve the shape ofsaid portion and prevent it from getting 5 stringy The four-in-hand tie here shown and described is but one of the many forms to Copies of this patent may be yobtained for ive cents each, by addressing the Washington, D. G.

`tying ends andthe lining thereof.

2. A necktie having a neck-band portion which merges into expanded or enlarged tying ends, an inner lining, and cross lines of stitching extending entirely through the outer material of both faces' of the tie and the lining thereof adjacent and along the portions of the `tie where the neck-band merges into one of said tying ends, and cross lines of stitching extending entirely through thelining and the `material of the outer face ofthe tie only at a point between saidy first mentioned stitching and the extreme end of the tie.

In testimony whereof I afx my signatureu WILLAM K. MEYER.

Commissioner of Patents. 

